Taking a break from this place. I'll be back when it happens though!

What's wild is Black people keep telling everyone else this but accepting that racial solidarity against mass incarceration is the baseline of meaningful resistance is a bridge too far for an overwhelming majority of the population, despite very obvious for-profit concentration camp plans.

And in fact, because of protecting and caring for each other, the building/rebuilding is already happening. In ways little and big we meet disaster, collapse, domination from the opposite stance to what created it.

*looks directly into the camera Marxistly*

Waiting to see how long it takes institutions reinstate the diversity, equity, and inclusion programs they shut down, re-hire those they pushed out, and rewrite all the language they rushed to change. Something tells me it'll likely be a long wait.

SCOTUS was like "No kings when it comes to our personal stock portfolios" lol

Have you ever wondered why the circulation of horrific videos of police assaulting and murdering people usually results in more political support and resources for police? This thread is a great explainer.

So that's at least two of the top programs for archivists & librarians being subsumed into a new unit for computing and AI, and I'm guessing many more to follow.

Proposed cuts to libraries, parks, CUNY, housing + health, while keeping NYPD + Corrections intact; proposed real property tax increases disproportionately affecting Black owners + most tenants; homeless encampment sweeps. Why is Z proposing these regressive measures, and how best can we respond? 🧵

The amount of times I have to stop myself from saying “figure it out” to adults is wild. I extend a lot of grace but baby I need for you to……*whispers* figure it out.

This is true and it is also how all US prisons work

This is why I think we need to let go the ‘no kings’ stuff and start talking oligarchy. We have to recognize this is not about one singular garbage ass man, but about an entire class of people that can start/stop wars based on their own economic interests.

I will keep on banging the drum here: the failure to investigate at all the death of Renee Good is a hostile act of gender discrimination, and it should be tied to larger attacks against women’s rights to participate in democratic society such as the SAVE ACT.

I know it’s a cliche but books have never let me down. During every really shit time in my life, they’ve always been an escape and a way to not be myself or in my circumstances for a little while. If I wasn’t a reader I genuinely don’t know what I’d do.

This is one of the reasons why I think it's so weird when people blame the US electorate for what's happening right now. I remember 2020--we left everything on the field that year. And then we were betrayed.

I think this is true and important and I also think that we have to reckon with the fact that we thought we did this in 2020 and then the Biden administration betrayed us.

Virginia Giuffre was a brave woman who did something almost no one in history has managed to do

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

"The news of Mamdani's preliminary budget was a big letdown. I'm sad and angry and disappointed. But this is FAR from over. We're going to make a lot of noise, we're going to fight like hell, and they are NOT going to cut the New York City public library budget on our watch."

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

Political news rarely surprises me these days, but the US surpassing the *English royal family* in elite impunity was not on my bingo card 🤷🏻‍♀️

I really appreciate this question. Thank you. You can help us by spreading the word through your networks. There are bound to be NYC residents in those networks. We need them to take action.

I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

This Matthew Yglesias. Is he important? Or is he another one that people cling to every word that comes next from him so they can reliably pounce on how wrong it is? If he's always wrong why are we still talking about him?

My thoughts on how critical fully funded public libraries are to any Left political project in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

LRT: I didn't really understand white supremacy until I started working with very rich higher ed donors. The way they learn and reinforce white supremacy within their networks, and then use their wealth to institutionalize it everywhere--seeing it up close made a whole lot of things click for me.

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

“We’re not a perfect people. Yet, we are called to a perfect mission. Our mission to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to teach the illiterate, to provide jobs for the jobless, and to choose the human race over the nuclear race.” Jessie Jackson REST IN PEACE

4. Call or text 716-222-2190 if you see ICE or CBP.

You really owe it to yourself to go through this thread where TMC is giving a masterclass on how the AI push is showing up in politics.

Beautiful piece from @ella-writes.bsky.social on how projects like @pmpress.bsky.social are building organized power and resistance culture.

“Jackson is arrested in 1993 after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting against the Clinton administration’s policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees who were HIV positive” Remember this history as we remember this man.

Organizing against borders can seem utopic, but there are many concrete fights: 1 Mutual aid networks 2 Rapid Response actions 3 Stopping PIC construction & budget fights 4 Ending agreements w/ local enforcement 5 Non cooperation of public institutions (hospitals etc) w/ immigration 6 Status 4 All

Civil rights figures like Jesse Jackson are why black feminists are theorized intersectionality: he might have forged a multi-racial coalition but black woman weren’t always in that coalition. Complicated man, complicated politics.

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.

I knew a fella, was a mighty man With a molotov cocktail and a farmers tan He had a tommy gun, and a black sedan Well he up and shot the leader of the Ku Klux Klan

Deep down they are terrified of women seeing how small they are katemanne.substack.com/p/the-id-of-...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."

It's super cool to be a 43-year-old woman in a time when medical science is just starting to learn things about menopause, but also medical science is now being cancelled by a rich dude who snorts coke off a toilet seat.

i need to admit something. the more i think about how many of our problems are downstream of a very small number of ppl and organizations hoarding all the wealth and power, the less interested i am in discussions of american democracy that prefer to focus on anything else.

I have big nostalgia goggles about the early Internet too, but man is there a ton of survivorship bias from people who, frankly, were not underage girls during that time

Yep. The market problem writ large is exceptionally true in highered. But it won’t matter — and doesn’t matter — to those in charge right now because the point is to strip the institution.

I can't get over the fact that she's wearing sandals

Authoritarians cannot understand regular people because they themselves are cowards Fear motivates them, so they assume it motivates everyone. They can't imagine risking their lives for a stranger, for free It's why they've beat a public retreat in Minneapolis, and it's how we'll ultimately win

I’ve literally been saying this since I was a teenager:

Last night I met several people in their 20s and helped them make plans to get started in community organizing and they were all so excited about their next steps! What joy

There are no quick fixes for fascism - our charge is to confront and uproot the criminalization that underlies and drives it within and beyond borders.